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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #93 Tomatoes and the Road to Net Zero
Description: Something remarkable is happening in East Anglia. Waste heat from sewage treatment is being pumped into two enormous greenhouses creating low carbon heat for growing tomatoes. A lot of tomatoes, more than 10% of UK production. This use of waste heat is just one of the ways that water companies are using waste as a resource, as they follow a roadmap to ensure that operational greenhouse gas emissions fall to net zero in the water sector by 2030. This target is two decades ahead of the UK’s mandatory target and the results could help other industries reduce their carbon footprint to...